“Nearly half the size” does not mean what you think it does

Apple on Wednesday introduced the next generation iPod shuffle. The shuffle has always been Apple’s smallest iPod, but now it is nearly half the size of the previous model.

Standard disclaimers apply. Yes, it’s a nice-looking gadget; yes, I would like to have one.  But “nearly half” means “almost half”, which means “less than half”, which does not mean what the author means.

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